Word: grossers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office figures this week, Variety reported that the No. 1 picture-though in release only three months - was 20th Century-Fox's first CinemaScopepic, The Robe. The estimated gross: between $20 million and $30 million, a fair start toward topping Gone With the Wind, the alltime top-grosser ($35 million...
...same story in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Kansas City and San Francisco. Foxmen dreamily talked of total earnings topping Gone With the Wind's record $35 million take. Hollywood Reporter Columnist Mike Connolly wrote: "The Robe just has to be the greatest grosser of all time. It might even outsell the Bible...
Millions of U.S. moviegoers have seen the $6,500,000 epic Quo Vadis. In the 15 months since its release, the Technicolored spectacle of pagan Rome has become the third biggest grosser*-$10,500,000-in movie history...
...National Board of Review picked a mixed bouquet: The Quiet Man (No. 12 on Variety'?, list of top grossers), High Noon, Limelight, Five Fingers (No. 86), The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Thief (No. 114), The Bad and the Beautiful, Singin' in the Rain, Above and Beyond, My Son John (a poor grosser, unlisted...
Puff explains the grosser absurdities of his play to Sneer, played only adequately by Thayer David, stating quite simply: "It's a rule!" Indeed the rules seem to apply quite aptly to the ordinary drama, though not to Sheridan. For "The Critic" sweeps through a duel, a reenactment of the British fleet subduing the Spanish Armada, and a scene in which Nancy Marchand goes mad with her "confidante" Jan Farrand mimicking her exquisitely. In a grand boffola ending Brittania is lowered from the ceiling by a block and tackle. Andrew E. Norman